Critics reviews

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Like the sort of sleepy slasher film it vaguely resembles, Sunset Edge—whose single finest piece of casting is the real-life abandoned trailer park that serves as its primary set—is ultimately all about the sins of the fathers being visited on the next generation.

Thank you to the cast and crew and especially Daniel Peddle. I was on the edge of my seat. Isn’t this where so many psycho stories originate?- the trailer park in small town USA? Absolutely! The best actor? Hayley for sure! Cinematography was flawless- so carefully edited. I was never bored. Thanks also to MUBI for screening this- a great example of why MUBI is such an essential & important entertainment portal.

What could be more boring than watching teenagers being bored? To make it even more boring, they are located in an abandoned part of America that was deathly boring before it was abandoned. Lowbrow trailer park existentialism. Good actors and photography.

Not sure I understood any of the characters' motivations or particularly cared about their well-being. Kinda felt like someone tried to simultaneously shoot Slacker and Blair Witch in a leftover set piece from Winter's Bone. Sometimes a low budget meandering indie isn't endearing - it's just low budget and meandering. Better than 1-star but not quite a 2-star either. Let's call it ★⅘.

This movie is mainly about a group of four aimless teens that decide to explore this forgotten and abandon trailer park in a creek that they have been told to avoid. of course not undersatnding why, the curuiousity only helps to make these teen want to check it out more. Little do the group of four know that there is danger behind the mystery of this past horrific site.

You need to be easily amused, fairly bored, or able to internally riff off the movie with your own relative thoughts... I watched it in two parts, 40 min., then the balance the next day. There were great ideas & qualities in the sequencing, the filming, & the subtexts; however, left a bit underdevelopment of relationships & characters & also unresolved at end, w/ a dash of confusion. But It was okay.

At the beginning of this movie, Sunset Edge, you want to like it. But as the story unfolds you're left with a feeling of incompletion, as the story lines unfold some parts didn't make much sense. But the old abandoned trailer park draws you in with the old and weiry look to it. The black figure in the shadows also sends an uneasy feeling throughout your body. Overall, not a bad film, just needs to be complete.